Day 15
We were sad to leave the rather comfortable hotel, which had clean sheets and a, unused by us, swimming pool. Filled up with fuel where a boy came to the window and said, ‘I’m so pleased to meet you because I’ve only seen you on the telly’, which might explain the thousands of people lining the roads. We then realised that we were running late so roared along the open roads which had been closed to all other traffic. Although manned by police, going through the villages at 70mph was quite something as they all cheered and waved again.
It was a stunningly beautiful drive with no traffic and no donkey carts, in fact all the people in
Ethiopia seemed to be doing nothing but waiting for us to come through. A huge contrast from yesterday when they were so busy.
Thought our times were a bit tight but, having left late, managed to arrive early. Rachel was complimented on her driving by two people so we must be doing alright and we have gone up to 36
th. The border was another scene with our passports being looked at by three different officials and eventually given back to us. Apparently Philip made a scene at the control and started stamping everyone’s passports himself! We are not sure what the rush was about as we are in a very tired and dusty village which is ostensibly dry… However we did find a thriving little bar in the prison staff canteen where we had a Tusker or two. Then back to share a small double bed… We are managing by going head to toe in sleeping bags.
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